Levin is a mystery to me. I never listened because of no access, but he seemed like a warrior for liberty. Instead, he curled up into protectionism of his own little bit of turf.
I have a book- The Quotable Founding Fathers-by Buckner F Milton Jr.
It is a book of quotes by the founders outside, mostly, of the arena of the capitol. Letters to each other etc.
It gives us an insight of what they really felt towards issue related.
To a man, outside of maybe Hammilton, they all were America first. Hamilton was a worm.